NEW SOUTH WALES
The Australian
December 16, 2018
By John Ferguson
A former chief justice will investigate how a sadistic Catholic pedophile was shifted from South Australia to NSW, where he wreaked havoc at one of the faith’s finest schools.
Former Victorian Supreme Court chief justice Marilyn Warren has been engaged by the Jesuits to investigate how serial offender and former brother Victor Higgs was able to offend in two states.
Higgs has been convicted of molesting boys from Sydney’s St Ignatius College Riverview and St Ignatius in Adelaide and was moved interstate after offending the first time.
The Australian Province of the Society of Jesus will open its books to Ms Warren to determine what the schools knew and when about Higgs’s offending.
Her findings will be published.
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